#PWRTHR Strength & Conditioning for MMA one day workshop. Sunday 25th of Feburary 1030-1500 £65 Powering through performance Unit 8 Eckersley Road Essex CM1 1SL Sign up link https://goteamup.com/p/1124336-powering-through/courses/23224/ This workshop will cover Coach William Wayland’s approach to strength & conditioniong for MMA fighters, this will also be applicable to other combat athletes such as […]

Posted originally on twitter for those curious about the type of conditioning model I use for MMA/BJJ. just one of many ways we can sequence. Very dependant on sport training volume and athlete needs/ability. Highly inspired by @rugby_strength_coach and Joel Jamieson. Looking to run a similar model for combat athletes at the new facility. If […]

How Strong is strong enough for Jiujitsu and MMA? We’ve asked this question on scramblog before. In this post I suggested “Strength addicts will say you can never have enough, smart athletes however need to know if pursuing more strength worth diminising returns and time cost. We are not trying to produce strongmen, powerlifters or […]

5 for fighting posts will about 5 exercises or ideas I use regularly with combat (and non combat athletes). This post is about KPI’s in the biggest lifts I employ. Strength Key Performance Indicators are way stones or development marks in an athletes strength profile. These usually represent a few lifts that cover the basic […]

Neat Info Graphic from Dan Coughlan turning something I talked about here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klJRjzH63E “How specific should we be? Generally specific! Squats and cleans may not relate too closely to the movement of any athletic event but they do give a balanced development base upon which highly specific exercise can be built. Specificest Grappling Strength & […]

If you are a non field athlete and not sure how much sprinting to do in a session for metabolic conditioning? A good rule of thumb for a session is total effort should be 30% of game duration. So 30% of a 3x5min MMA match would give us 4m30s so you could divide this into 9x30s […]

I have posted before about recovery routines before, elements of which can used after both sports training and weight training sessions. I have also spoken before about the need for deep belly breathing post training also. In brief using deep belly breathing we can re-establish parasympathetic dominance and get out of stressed state training encourages. […]

UFC fighter Arnold Allen, Pro Fighter Sean Carter and Myself talk training, ido portal, crossfit, polar bears, tristar, sleep and more on Slaphead and The Giraffe Podcast. Chris and Daz made the trek over to chelmsford and recorded in the gym just last week. http://slapheadandthegiraffe.podbean.com/e/episode-no-37-featuring-ufc-fighter-arnold-allen-sc-coach-william-wayland-and-pro-fighter-sean-carter/ If you like this content please share!20

Ignore the clickbait inspired title. You may recall from previous post that ACL tears are a bit of problem in grappling and MMA especially in females. I’ve spoken before about the need for direct hamstring work when it comes to helping athletes prevent and bounce back from knee injuries and growing body of evidence is […]